[Maemo 5] Want official MSN client, not third party alternatives (was: n900 users)
 

buenos dias a todos...abro este tema para decir que estoy decepcionado por como nokia nos esta tratando a los n900 usuarios...
como es posible que a estas alturas todavia no tengamos el msn messenger oficial para nokia n900 y tengamos que usar aplicaciones externas y defectuosas por cierto...desde noviembre tengo el telefono y aun no tenemos esta aplicacion que es tan importante hoy en dia ???

en ingles:
good morning everyone ... I open this topic to say I am disappointed with how nokia is treating the N900 users...
how is it possible that at this point we still do not have an official msn messenger for nokia n900 and we need to use external and defective applications ... I have the phone since November and we still do not have this application which is so important today? ?

Re: n900 users
 

doesnt pidgin or the equivalent help? :D

Re: n900 users
 

May I just ask how did you get your phone in November?

Re: n900 users
 

USA and some in the UK got it at the end of november. Nitchers for example who ordered through the nokia store got his in the last week of november (And nuknuk got his broken one then too).

Re: n900 users
 

Well it is possible to get working MSN by now. I doubt Microsoft has any intentions on releasing a full fledged MSN application on a competing device. As far as I know there does not exist an official MSN app for any linux device, desktop or mobile.

Re: n900 users
 

no pdin sucks....and why we have to use third party apps ????

we bought a huawei phone or nokia ? WTF

Re: n900 users
 

Sorry, but you bought an open linux phone. Feel free to use what ever you want - one of the best features of the N900. If you want to use only preinstalled or "official" software you bought the wrong phone?!

Re: [Maemo 5] Want official MSN client, not third party alternatives (was: n900 users)
 

one of the reasons that i bought nokia and not other brand is that i want to use only Linux and its applications

i found pidgin very good and i am satisfy except the smiles that they are small and is hard to select them. I would prefere the smiles of sms

is it possible to install other Linux msn clients as kopete or kmess ?

Re: n900 users
 

so what ? that means we not going to have official apps ?

Re: [Maemo 5] Want official MSN client, not third party alternatives (was: n900 users)
 

how are the MSN protocol plugins for conversations app flawed ? (I don't really use "MSN", the plugins work really well for connecting with the people who refuse to see the light of sane and open protocols like Jabber [GTalk is actually Jabber]).

My main problem with MSN as a whole is that the procol is very data hungry which makes it power-hungry as well (If I keep only Jabber accounts [2] online vs Jabber plus MSN I get significantly longer battery life).

The plugins are available in the default repo, as for using only "official" apps, definitely wrong platform...

Edit: just a note I use Adium on my desktop/laptop (again it has more than enough of MSN support for my humble needs).

Edit2: Someone might make "official" (as in OVI-repo, probably paid-for since the OVI QA costs money) MSN client but I doubt it since the free alternatives available directly in the enabled-by-default extras repo are enough for almost everyone. (OTOH I've come to understand that all kind of inane crap for the iPhone sells like the proverbial hot cakes so maybe I just don't have any business-sense)